Fallen officers’ kin gather for Xmas

IT’S THE CHRISTMAS party where nobody wants to make the guest list.

The city’s largest police union held its annual Widows and Children’s Holiday Party to honor the family members of officers killed in the line of duty.

“Unfortunately, this group grows,” said Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.

The melancholy of the past dissipated quickly once the guests sampled the holiday cheer at Michael Jordan’s Steak House in Grand Central Terminal.

“It’s a big deal for us,” said Linda Innes, 50, whose dad, Lloyd, was shot to death while working for the New York City Transit Police Department in 1967. “We’re all having a good time, but we understand each other. We all know what each other has gone through.”

Maritza Fernandez attended for the first time with her daughters Brianna, 19, and Bailley, 15.

The family lost Detective Luis Fernandez to 9/11-related esophageal cancer in October 2014.

He was diagnosed after turning up at Ground Zero on 9/11 and staying for the ensuing days on the toxic 16-acre site.

Brianna happily found herself fitting right in among the other kids at the event.

“You’re surrounded by people who’ve had similar experiences as you,” she said, “and you don’t really get that anywhere else.”